On 7/6/2009 11:21 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 06 July 2009, David wrote: >> On 7/6/2009 5:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Monday 06 July 2009, David wrote: >>>> On 7/6/2009 11:27 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> On Monday 06 July 2009, William M. Quarles wrote: >>>>>> I have a directory in my home directory named .gvfs with the following >>>>>> properties when I do an ls -Al: >>>>>> >>>>>> d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs >>>>>> >>>>>> I can't access it, delete it, nor rename it; nor can root do any of >>>>>> those things. I keep getting error messages in the terminal saying as >>>>>> such, too. Does anybody know how I can fix this? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> William >>>>> I'll follow this thread too, as I have it, and its driving amanda to >>>>> squawk about it. And root cannot do anything to it either. >>>> The way that you wrote this Gene I would think that your "driving amanda >>>> to squawk" problem is an amanda problem not a .gvfs problem. Amanda is >>>> an 'addon' backup application, correct? And .gvfs is part of the Fedora >>>> operating file system. This .gvfs *belongs* there and is needed. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> David >>> By what, David? I'm running kde here. I just made that script from a >>> previous message, then did a killall on the daemon, and with that gone the >>> tree if any has now been deleted. We will wait and see what squawks. >> FUSE >> >> Filesystem in Userspace >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace >> >> My guess would be something important. :-) >> >>> As far as the comment about an addon, non-approved app like amanda is >>> concerned, I have been running amanda since back in the day when redhat >>> actually supplied bru as its backup app. Amanda beat it then, and still >>> beats anything in the fedora repos 11 years later. Quality code generally >>> stands the test of time, particularly when it has been in active >>> development for all of those years, even before linux itself I believe as >>> its an even older unix app. I'm running the snapshot taken on 06/22/2009 >>> right now. Where is bru today? I have no idea. >> When I said addon I meant 'no part of the original installed operating >> system'. And I would still be more inclined to pester the amanda >> developers about this bug than to perhaps disable a perfectly running >> computer. >> > That depends on whose fault it is. Having something existing on a system that > not even root can control sends up alarms, fireworks and red flags to me. > There is no way in hell I can lay that problem on amanda's doorstep. This is > supposed to be open source, where everything is visible and controllable. > This thing seems to have been under the radar till it just showed up, set as a > default someplace. "Just showed up"? Do you mean gvfs? It "just showed up" in the Fedora 9 release. > As for starting something called FUSE at boot time, should not whatever it is > that starts the daemon set off a fuss if it cannot find the daemon to start > it? I just rebooted, to 2.6.30.1 because the oom killer in 31-rc2 only allows > around 12-18 hours of uptime, BIG memory leak somewhere. And no mention shows > in a dmesg, I just looked again. Good for you. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines